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02-02-2006, 09:50 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Illinois
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| Scared of Vacuum Kobe is petrified of our vacuum cleaner and always has been. He shakes so badly. Does anybody else have this problem ? |
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02-02-2006, 10:00 AM | #2 |
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| YES!!! I've had Coco since May last year and she still shakes horribly, cries and goes and hides under the couch, bed, dresser or her daddy's legs. I don't know why. I've tried holding her while I vaccuum so she can see it's no big deal. I've tried leaving it out so she won't be afraid anymore, but she just hides the whole time. I don't know what to think. Maybe it's the noise.
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02-02-2006, 10:03 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | My pom is deathly afraid of it and runs around the house with her tail down when I vacuum. Cali picked up on her fear and now they run together glued at the hip.
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02-02-2006, 10:03 AM | #4 |
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| Bruce is exactly the opposite...Whenever I vacum he trys to pounce the vacum, barks at it and thinks it is yet another toy for him to play with. It really does make vacuming a lot more difficult, because he practically underneath it!
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02-02-2006, 10:13 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Perkasie, PA
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| Willy attacks the vacuum, he grabs the front rub strip in his mouth and shakes his head like crazy, he has pulled it out of my hand on more than one occasion. When he sees me getting the vacuum out he stands on guard & as soon as I turn it on he begins to attack. Desiree |
02-02-2006, 10:20 AM | #6 |
YT Addict | Our Tiffany R.I.P didn't care for them either but would just leave the room when my wife entered it with the vacuum,face it...to them it's a large ugly noisy creature thats moving around in their territory. One of my earliest memorys was of my mother vacuuming the house when i couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 and remember it scared the livin' beejesus out'a me!!
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02-02-2006, 10:25 AM | #7 |
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| the minute i open the closet door lexi starts barking, she knows that vacuum is coming out.. and she is non stop from there until im done
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02-02-2006, 10:30 AM | #8 |
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| First time I ran the vacuum, Gracie ran under a chair and we had to lift up the chair to get her out. Almost 2 years later and she is getting better. She shakes sometimes, but that is it. I have to vacuum so I decided to help Gracie get over her fear. I let her know that Mommy has to vacuum and I say "Gracie, noise" before I turn it on. I talk to her while I vacuum telling her that it is ok. I also left the vacuum out, in the middle of the room for a few days to let her get use to it. She now knows that this big monster will not hurt her and that mommy will protect her.
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02-02-2006, 10:54 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | They use to be when they were younger. Now they follow me around room to room trying to bit it. Makes it a little difficult vacuuming!
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02-02-2006, 11:13 AM | #10 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Illinois
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| I have tried to leave the vacuum in the room. He will not go near it. If it is in a doorway he will not leave that room. I have tried talking to him while I vacuum to reassure him. And I have also held him and talked to him while I vacuum. Nothing helps. I still use it when he is around hoping that someday he will get over this fear. But my other family members will not use it unless someone is their to take him elsewhere. |
02-02-2006, 11:28 AM | #11 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Dallas, TX
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| Nope, Tigger LOVES to bark at it and even bite it as it's going around the room. He'll pounce at it, bark and bite at it, and then when you turn it off and make it go towards him he gets scared. go figure.
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02-02-2006, 11:31 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | Trace is another attacker. He's pretty certain vaccum cleaners can suck up a dog. Enough barking and growling, his job's done...THAT thing is back in the closet where it belongs
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02-02-2006, 11:57 AM | #13 |
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| From VeterinaryPartner.com, here's a way to help your pup over this: Vacuum cleaners make weird noises. Their use involves a person thrusting the thing around the room in gestures that wouldn't make any sense to a dog. The concept of cleaning a floor, other than by eating any food spilled on it, would also be foreign to a dog's way of thinking. There's not much about a vacuum cleaner for a dog to like! The occasional herding dog will chase it because it moves, and some dogs will "attack" or threaten it because it isn't acting right! Adding treats to vacuuming time can work through this fear. If the dog is really traumatized about the device, you may need to start with setting up the vacuum cleaner and giving the dog treats in the next room. Over several sessions you can move the treat-giving closer, never faster than the dog's comfort level can handle. Do the process with the vacuum off, next with the vacuum cleaner running, and finally with the vacuum cleaner moving. While going through this program, put the dog in a different place whenever you vacuum so as not to undo all the good conditioning by scaring the dog again.
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02-02-2006, 02:48 PM | #14 | |
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02-02-2006, 03:48 PM | #15 |
YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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| OMG, Biscuit is sooooo scared of the vacuum and so is my cat. When I bring it out I say "Run Biscuit, it's your nemesis." They're both gone once they hear it coming. |
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